The Loughborough Bell Foundry
The cupola above the main entrance of this building houses a 39″ Warner bell weighing 11 cwts. The bell is used to sound the hours with the clock mechanism placed beneath. The bell is in a dangerous state as its supporting ironwork has eroded significantly. It will be lowered and new supporting ironwork will be […]
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John Taylor & Co (International) was contacted by the Antiquities and Monuments Office of the Hong Kong Government to work with them on the project to restore the bell originally supplied by Taylor’s to the Canton-Kowloon Railway Company in 1919. This one tonne bell in Eb which is now on a plinth in the base […]
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The tower of this church houses a fine carillon with a 28 cwt bass bell, cast by Peter Waghevens of Mechelen in 1506. The other 34 bells and the rest of the installation was manufactured by Gillett & Johnston in 1935. Apart from the traditional baton clavier and manual transmission, an automatic chiming system was […]
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Working with the monks of this Abbey Church a major rehanging of their Spanish bells will take place. The four bells will be lifted from the tower by crane and be taken to the Abbey engineering workshops. The headstocks and other fittings will be restored or replaced with new as necessary, and the bells restored […]
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The authorities at this theological college have ordered work to be carried out on their single 21″ diameter Thomas Mears bell of 1837. At present the bell cannot be sounded because its clapper is missing so a new automatic chiming system and hammer will be manufactured and supplied with an Apollo programmable unit so that […]
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This church houses a Westminster clock chime of four bells (largest 5 cwts) that were cast by Taylor’s in 1931. A local contractor supplied and installed a steel bell frame constructed of universal beams in recent decades which was undersized and was fitted by iron fixings into unstable stonework which has burst through rusting expansion. […]
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Having recently completed a major refurbishment of this 9 cwt ring of six, this church has now placed an order for the hanging of a separate clock/service bell. The second hand bell originally hung at Hudswell Church which is now redundant, near Richmond North Yorkshire. The bell will be hung stationery with both an internal […]
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Following the disastrous fire at this church last year which completely gutted the tower, the 11cwt ring of eight was safely lowered to the floor and brought to the Foundry for safe keeping. The bells were a mixed ring, three by Thomas Lester dated 1739, three by Mears & Stainbank dated 1919, and two by […]
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